I pleaded guilty. 'I went to jail. Two months later, Langer told the New York Times that her decision to speak out against Polanski was partly inspired by Robin's statement.

The February 1972 assault is the latest in a string of similar allegations made by a total of four different women against 84-year-old Mr Polanski, who is now married with two children.

Polanski is said to have then apologized and cast Langer in a small role in his film Che.

Following the incident, Langer says she did not tell her parents what happened because she thought it would devastate them.

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She told the paper she met Polanski while working for a modeling agency in Munich and traveled to visit him in Gstaad, where she said he raped her. I felt ashamed and embarrassed and lost....

Also in August, another woman in Los Angeles identified simply as "Robin" by her lawyer said she was sexually assaulted by Polanski in 1973 when she was 16.

In 1977, filmmaker admitted to having had illegal sex with Samantha Geimer, n 13 years old, in House of Jack Nicholson in Los Angeles, while actor was travelling.

Langer said that she was speaking out now because she had read the account of the woman who came forward in August and because her parents are no longer alive. He has lived in France, Switzerland and Poland and has not returned to the US since. "This had an influence on all of my life".

Polanski's film career continued after fleeing the United States. As a part of a plea bargain, Polanski pled guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, underwent psychiatric evaluation and spent 42 days in jail. I then was locked up here [in Zurich] after this festival.

Petty had recently wrapped up a world tour, which included 53 shows in the US, Canada and the UK. "Dumbfounded by it. TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS: (Singing) See those fault lines laid out like landlines.

Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs full committee hearing titled "Wells Fargo: One Year Later ". Tuesday morning, Wells Fargo President and CEO Tim Sloan was in the hot seat at the U.S.

Dunford told the committee that it's clear to him that Pakistan's intelligence service has connections to the terrorist groups. Tuesday's public calling out of ISI's terrorist ties was the harshest indictment of Pakistan in years.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Science while announcing the winners stated that "this was a discovery which shook the world". The three scientists won the prize on Tuesday for detecting the faint ripples flying through the universe.

Erdogan is also scheduled to meet Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during his visit to the country. Mr Erdogan said on Saturday that Iraqi Kurdistan "will pay a price" for the "unacceptable" referendum.

Giffords, whose ability to speak has been limited since the shooting, told her former colleagues, "The nation's counting on you". Videos of the initial gunfire in Las Vegas appeared to indicate the use of a fully automatic, machine-gun-type weapon.

Caught in the Premier League, Brighton could not count on anything else, how to get hold of a place in 20 best teams. The Gunners have a much better team than the Seagulls , and playing at home is also going to give them an advantage.

We will make a decision probably on Friday, but I would say that it is a little bit hard for him to be involved on Saturday. News the injury is not serious will be a relief to United ahead of their Premier League trip to Liverpool on October 14.

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Looking back at what he heard, Bethel said he heard Paddock switch weapons as he was reporting what he heard to law enforcement. According to NBC , Benjamin was first arrested in Las Vegas the late 1960s after stealing $25,000 from three Arizona banks.

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